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Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly? (2024)
Report
Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Buckley, . M., Poder, I., & Hughes, J. (2024). Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?. ESPRC and RAI UK

Generative AI is changing the way our economies and businesses operate, and SMEs could be receiving more benefits from this transition. Over the past 12 months in the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) project we have been wo... Read More about Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report (2024)
Report
Ochang, P., Stahl, B., Eke, D., & Cameron, H. Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

On the 1st of July 2024, the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in the UK and Africa (RAISE) project hosted its inaugural workshop, bringing together small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the United Kingdom and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) : First Virtual Human Centric Design Workshop Report.

Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–2017 (2024)
Journal Article
Ahmadzai, H., & Morrissey, O. (2024). Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–2017. Journal of Development Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2404576

We use three waves (2011–2012 to 2016–2017) of nationally representative repeated cross section surveys to study the impact of crop diversification (number of crops grown) on household welfare, measured by real adult equivalent consumption and food e... Read More about Crop Diversification, Household Welfare and Conflict: Afghanistan 2011–2017.

Sustaining Tanzania's economic development: A firm and household perspective (2024)
Book
Morrissey, O., Semboja, J., & Were, M. (Eds.). (2024). Sustaining Tanzania's economic development: A firm and household perspective. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885746.001.0001

The book addresses the progress and resilience of firms and households in Tanzania. How has growth, access to (export) markets and interlinkages helped establish resilience for firms? What are the key variations in households’ income sources and how... Read More about Sustaining Tanzania's economic development: A firm and household perspective.

Dishonesty and public employment (2023)
Journal Article
Cruces, G., Rossi, M., & Schargrodsky, E. (2023). Dishonesty and public employment. American Economic Review: Insights, 5(4), 511-526. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20220550

We exploit a natural experiment to study the causal link between dishonest behavior and public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by both a lottery and a medical examination. To avoid conscri... Read More about Dishonesty and public employment.

(In)efficiency in private value bargaining with naive players: Theory and experiment (2023)
Journal Article
Possajennikov, A., & Saran, R. (2023). (In)efficiency in private value bargaining with naive players: Theory and experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 216, 42-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.003

The paper investigates two-player double-auction bargaining with private values in a setting with discrete two-point overlapping distributions of traders' valuations. We characterize parameter settings in which there exists a fully efficient equilibr... Read More about (In)efficiency in private value bargaining with naive players: Theory and experiment.

Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V.-J., Liang, H.-N., & Yue, Y. (2023, April). Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters. Presented at CHI '23 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Crowdsourcing in China is a thriving industry. Among its most interesting structures, we find crowdfarms, in which crowdworkers self-organize as small organizations to tackle macrotasks. Little, however, is known as to which practices these crowdfarm... Read More about Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters.

Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production (2023)
Journal Article
Gächter, S., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2023). Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01283

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-register... Read More about Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production.

The Attraction and Compromise Effects in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Galeotti, F., Montero, M., & Poulsen, A. (2022). The Attraction and Compromise Effects in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence. Management Science, 68(4), 2377-3174. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4025

We experimentally investigate, in an unstructured bargaining environment with commonly known money payoffs, the attraction effect and compromise effect (AE and CE) in bargaining, namely, a tendency for bargainers to agree to an intermediate option (C... Read More about The Attraction and Compromise Effects in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence.

Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy (2019)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2019). Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy. Ethics, 129(3), 441-463. https://doi.org/10.1086/701481

Discounting future costs and benefits is often defended on the ground that our descendants will be richer. Simply to treat the future as better off, however, is to commit an ecological fallacy. Even if our descendants are better off when we average... Read More about Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy.